The hacker invasion of Twitter this week clearly illustrates how easy it would be for anyone with an ulterior motive to attack the integrity of our elections this fall.
The same guys who took control of the Twitter accounts of Obama, Biden, Musk and Gates could just as easily take over many more, including election boards across the country. This one was made to look like a scam to trade Bitcoin, but what it really looks like is a trial run to see how difficult it would be to grab Twitter the day before the election and broadcast all kinds of false and misleading information.
The accounts hacked this time were those of liberal or Democratic celebrities. If repeated just before an election it could be anyone. This is exactly the kind of dirty pool exemplified by the likes of Steve Bannon, who once had Trump’s ear. The timing of the attack could actually be the result of Trump dumping his campaign manager and replacing him with Bill Stepien, who is known to be an attack dog and who would normally involve himself in those kinds of tactics.
We are in an age, despite the basic stupidity of a large section of the population; that is steeped in information technology. This would seem to be a good thing because there is noting more important than an informed citizenry, but despite the possibilities available we have not perfected the techniques to secure those technologies from being used to mask the truth from the American people.
The new technologies, because of the inability of the creators to secure their use, are even more dangerous than they are informative, and that is just one example of the current problem.
Technology companies are spending billions on security yet despite such expenditures they are all still far too vulnerable to invasion.
So what do we do about it? What can we do about it? Well, in the face of a severe lack of solutions from the creators of digital technology, we must look to other mediums to solve the problem. It falls to the news media to establish a system of controls much like they have already done with the lie detecting systems that are in place to keep the “alternative facts” of the president and his lying lackeys available to public scrutiny.
In this case, the difference would be that the media must set up a ready response to any and all false Internet communication that had anything to do with the election process. This would include information about false election results, false statements about any candidate and just about anything that would affect an election outcome. It can be done. Those same creators who have left us with insecure technology have also left us with shards of other technology able to deal with their shortcomings. We would be fools not to take advantage of it.
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Ivanka Trump, who for the last year or so has been clever enough to publically keep her mouth shut, evidenced this week that she really is as stupid as her old man and her siblings. Poor baby just couldn’t stand it another minute. She just had to throw her two cents into her father’s falsely admired economy. But now that The Donald has screwed up the pandemic and let it fester to the point where it is destroying an economy that was claimed and not earned by her father, the First Daughter advised the millions of unemployed to “Find something new!” Really?
Well, that should guarantee an Ivanka win in this year’s “Let them eat cake” contest given by the Marie Antoinette Committee of the Rich Assholes Society of America. It looks like another triumph of self-congratulation is on the agenda from the Trump family.
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Rachel Maddow interviewed Mary Trump this week in a candid discussion of her Trump dumping book and it’s relevance to our up coming election. Maddow’s opening monologue, about Donald and the Trump family’s treatment of Mary’s brother and his sick child was about as damning as it gets. She presents a vision of a group of already rich swine, trying to screw one of their own out of a fair share of the diseased patriarch’s fortune.
It was a case where Donald and three of his avaricious siblings decided they didn’t want to share Fred’s fortune with the children of their dead brother so they maneuvered to cut them off. In the process they pulled the medical insurance covering the child of Mary’s brother who had been born with a number of life threatening illnesses. When confronted with what he had done, Donald just waved it off. What the hell did he care? He was saving money.
But it’s really important for the reader to understand that these aren’t poor people struggling for enough money to sustain life. These are filthy rich swine, trying to screw members of their own family for what amounts to a third yacht.
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What’s going on in Portland is pretty scary. Old as I am I never thought I’d see something like this in America. The president has sent out his storm troopers to invade a sovereign state, ignoring the wishes of the governor of Oregon and the mayor of Portland.
So now the citizens of Portland are facing an, armed to the teeth, army of Black Shirts that fails to identify itself but snatches citizens off the streets like a bunch of Banana Republic death squads. And what happens when these out of control mercenaries actually kill an American citizen? Will they be held accountable? If so by whom? Will the local police take back their franchise and if they do, will it lead to open warfare on the streets of America?
Of course none of this has occurred to the idiot Trump. He just wanted to look like a tough guy without putting himself on the line. Well, what he looks like is a South American dictator or just a plain moron. Yes, the sources of these storm troopers, the DEA, the Border Patrol and the Marshal’s Service are all under the control of Trump lackeys; none of whom know anything about the jobs that Trump has given them because Trump’s only criteria for appointments to this administration is how well the candidate kisses his ass. It’s time for Governor Kate Brown to call out the State Police and the National Guard to deal with these usurpers. She has an out of control foreign invasion force that has established itself in her state and she must deal with it.
The Posse Comitatus Act has established that the US military cannot be used to control US citizenry. It’s all very complicated and very involved, but the bottom line is, the military can’t be used in states without congressional assignment or gubernatorial request. The same goes for the law enforcement services mentioned above, none of which have any jurisdiction. They cannot be assigned to operate in Oregon or any other state without the request or permission of the Governor of that state. That means, the law enforcement groups that have been assigned out of their jurisdiction, in fact the occupation in its entirety, is illegal; just like almost everything else Trump does. The question now is; how do we get rid of them and even more important, how do we keep Dictator Donald from sending them into other places where he sees a violation of his best interests?
And most importantly, how do we keep them away from polling places on Election Day?